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Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation.

$167M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$160M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$215MEducation$4.8MPhilanthropy$67kHuman Services$50kFood & Nutrition$45kRecreation & Sports$8k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $161,125,241, the rows itemized in this filing. The $166,599,806 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,474,565 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $250k+2 grants · $161M
$10,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.9B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION$160,000,000
UT Southwestern Medical College$1,033,041
Crystal Charity Ball Sponsorship$25,000
Children's Cancer Fund$25,000
Connecticut Children's Medical Center$10,200
Black Tie Dinner Inc$10,000
Dirk Nowitzki Foundation$7,500
Texas Bleeding Disorders Camp Foundation$7,500
Communities Foundation of Texas$7,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Canine Assistants Inc: $50k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$220M · 5 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$220M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+24%

Still filing today

60%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +22%
  • TC
    THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +6%
  • TB
    TEXAS BLEEDING DISORDERS CAMP FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • CA
    CANINE ASSISTANTS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +17%
  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +29%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON
    one grant, 2023 · $36k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
North Central Texas Medical Foundation
Health
2
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
3
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
4
Child Study Center

The child study center (csc) provides children with complex developmental and behavioral disabilities the highest quality diagnosis, treatment and education to help them achieve their full potential.

Education
5
Cook Children's Health Care System

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
6
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
7
Wi Cook Foundation Inc

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
8
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
9
Md Anderson Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Texas Bankers Foundation
Education
11
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
12
Children's Cancer Research Fund

Children's cancer research fund fuels transformational research to bring better treatments and cures to children with cancer.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dirk Nowitzki Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION: $215,000,000 · OtherHEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION+4 more: $4,861,529 · OtherChildren's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc: $50,000 · HealthCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $10,200 · HealthWOMENS AUXILIARY TO THE CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER: $6,140 · HealthTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $50,000 · PhilanthropyDIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION: $7,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $7,000 · PhilanthropyCANINE ASSISTANTS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS BLEEDING DISORDERS CAMP FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $7,800 · Education
Other$219,861,529Health$66,340Philanthropy$64,500Human Services$50,000Education$22,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCANINE ASSISTANTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS BLEEDING DISORDERS CAMP FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $10,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK TIE DINNER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $7,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRK NOWITZKI FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS AUXILIARY TO THE CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER: $6,140 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Children's Health Sys…Communities Foundatio…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Children's Health System of TexasTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Children's Health System of Texas · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Children's Health System of Texas funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Children's Health System of Texas. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Connecticut Children's Medical Center: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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